The life of a fireman: the night alarm--start her lively boys."" – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The life of a fireman: the night alarm--start her lively boys."". It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The life of a fireman: the night alarm--start her lively boys.""
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Firefighters racing to a blaze in the 1850s were often volunteers, and this hand-colored lithograph shows the moment the alarm sounds and the crew springs into action. Its title, "The night alarm, start her lively boys," captures the urgency of hauling a hand-pumped engine out of the station in the dark. Louis Maurer, who drew many of the firm's sporting and street scenes, signed the image, and Currier & Ives published it in New York around 1854. The print offers a lively view of how volunteer companies competed for speed and prestige in the years before steam fire engines became common.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1854. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Artist: Louis Maurer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3786 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,939 × 2,161 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif01573_Thelifeofafiremanthenightalarm |
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